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No lightweight way to remote-control an AI coding agent away from the PC

Developers running AI coding agents want to monitor and respond to permission prompts or chat state while away from their computer, but existing approaches rely on WiFi-dependent hardware displays or internet-exposed tunnels. There is demand for a local, non-networked way to remote-control an agent session.

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